Computer Microprocessors

China aims for petaflop computer in 2010

tmcnet.com     Aug 28, 2008   2 related          

China has stepped up investment in its homegrown Godson microprocessor and hopes to build its first petaflop-class supercomputer using the chip in 2010, one of the country's senior engineers said on Tuesday. But China...                    

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Renesas rolls dual-core multimedia CPU

eetimes.com     Aug 27, 2008   1 related          

San Jose, Ca. - Renesas Technology America, Inc. has just made available an enhanced SH7786 that delivers up to 1,920 million instructions per second (MIPS) when operating at 533MHz. A second-generation version fabricated...                    

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Intel Developer Forum Introduces Your Next Mac

pcworld.com     Aug 27, 2008   2 related          

With HP wireless printers, you could have printed this from any room in the house. First Apple drops "Computer" from its name to expand its focus to music, phones, and settop boxes, then Intel devotes six keynote-speech...                    

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Microprocessor and controller demand rises; DSP demand drops

purchasing.com     Aug 27, 2008          

Less price erosion and strong demand will result in a 10% increase in the global microcontroller market Strong demand and an end to severe price declines mean that the global microprocessor (MPU) market will grow 10% to...                    

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Sagem Integrates Ikanos Technology into Residential Gateway

tmcnet.com     Aug 28, 2008          

Ikanos Communications, a provider of broadband solutions for the digital home, announced that its high performance residential gateway products -- including the Fusiv Vx160 processor, voice over Internet protocol (VoIP)...                    

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Opinion: After the Core 2 Duo chip, what's next for Apple laptops?

computerworld.com     Aug 27, 2008   1 related          

Hitting the sweet spot between too slow and fast enough is critical Anonymous says: Same CPU, same graphic card, but twice the price. What's the big deal about macs?... August 27, 2008 (Computerworld) It's always a bit...                    

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Robots Set to Use x86 Microprocessors - Research Firm

xbitlabs.com     Aug 27, 2008   1 related          

Small, but Powerful Processor Designs May Go Head-to-Head in Robots Application processor vendors fight for their share of the large mobile handset space. There is an x86 versus ARM (Advanced RISC Machine) battle taking...                    

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AMD's New Desktop CPUs, Cuts Prices to older ones

cdrinfo.com     Aug 27, 2008   2 related          

AMD has brought in new CPUs and cut prices for some older ones. New CPUs aside, the price cuts by AMD are rather dramatic to say the least. To begin with, it's known that the Phenom X4 9950 has a rated TDP of 140W, and...                    

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Nvidia GPUs Approach 1.5 PFlops In Folding@Home Project

pheedo.com     Aug 27, 2008   1 related          

Santa Clara (CA) - Nvidia GPUs have become the leading processing platform within Folding@Home and continue to grow quickly: GeForce Processors are likely to become the first technology to break the 1.5 PFlops barrier....                    

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OLPC Origins: US and Taiwan's Hardware Lovechild [Olpc Secret Origins]

gizmodo.com     Aug 27, 2008   4 related          

In November of 2005, Nicholas Negroponte and his OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen traveled to Tunisia for the UN-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society, where they were able to present a "working" $100 laptop concept to...                    

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